Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 2
Why do you always stay at home, instead of doing as they do?"
Who acts: you, husbands · What happens: stay, do · To what, where: home
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, husbands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 stay | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 stay | advmod |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 doing | punct |
| 9 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 11 doing | mark |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 instead | fixed |
| 11 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stay | advcl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 doing | advcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 doing | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present · do-support | you | home | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | |||
| 2 | do | gerund | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | present | husbands = husband | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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